QUEENSLAND'S opposition wants Communities Minister Tracy Davis to resign for failing to audit or save a community association linked to suspended MP Scott Driscoll.
The Regional Community Association of Moreton Bay said on Tuesday it planned to go into liquidation.
Mr Driscoll is facing a raft of allegations, the worst of which is that he secretly controlled the association while he was an MP and funnelled $120,000 in consulting fees to his wife's company, Norsefire.
Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk said Ms Davis had the power to order a forensic audit of the association's books.
But she says the minister has sat on her hands for two weeks.
"This minister is incompetent, or maybe they are looking at protecting the member for Redcliffe (Mr Driscoll)," Ms Palaszczuk said.
"Either the minister shapes up and starts to take a hands-on approach to this problem or she should go and make way for someone who is willing to do that."
The taxpayer-funded association assists the community by providing counselling, emergency assistance and other services to residents.
Its board says it's owed about $295,000, including unpaid contract money from the state and federal governments.
It needs about $68,000 to meet all current creditors.
It claims it could pay debts if the government released funding it owes, but has held back since complaints about Mr Driscoll were made to the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC).
Ms Palaszczuk said Ms Davis could authorise state payments, so staff could be paid and community service work could continue.
The board, in its letter to media outlets on Tuesday, also lashed out at the "anonymous complaints" made against it.
"Any such complaints are entirely baseless," it said.
The board maintains it fully audited financials at all times and has endured "false, misleading and malicious attacks" for the past 12 months.
"The organisation has been caught up in a political witch-hunt because of its association with the local member of parliament," it says.
"The direct result of this is now the closure of a great local community organisation."
Mr Driscoll has vigorously denied all allegations made against him.
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